songs about roving, rambling and plain hard luck & photography from the other side …

I can try to run & hide but he’ll find me sure as hell

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Disappointment knows me well / I can try to run and hide but he’ll find me sure as hell / I was certain you were true when our light shone like a star / Oh, now I’m just another lonely heart / Oh, I’m just another lonely heart (Eleni Mandell)

Folks, it’s a great pleasure & honor all at the same time to be invited by the dear folks of pixartix to participate in their “Straßen & Wege” cycle. So make sure you follow them great photos, great stories & great photographers over there as much as I do.

Your photos point out the theme of “isolation” as them highlight the subjects in their small spots of light. With that plaintive tune wrapping its coils around the emotions and trying to squeeze the essence of them until they are all but dead, they stay alive enough to let it be known that unseen pain is as real as any injury. How we want to escape that even though we know we are alive just because that pain present! You’ve done it again, Sir. Fantastic stories and Beautiful shots, Florian–you make them work so well together.

There is Eleni Mandell in the center of the frame (and likely the stage) and there is also one spectator, the only one we can see from the audience, two loneliness in a small space, and a strong connection between them for some minutes, one hour and a little bit more maybe.

And there is the second picture, less explicit, like a possible follow-up of the first frame. Something offered to our imagination. Something opened to stories we can dream of.

A great work, Florian, with its deep blacks from which surge meaningful signs of life.

what would you do without music my dear? your pictures would have no sound…. surely you can’t be lonely with all of us loving you here…. or maybe we are all lonely hearts in the middle of a crowd… stuck inside the jail of flesh and bone… we trust a God we can’t feel…. that’s not true, i can feel Him. and i can feel you